John P. Kotter Quotes
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.
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Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
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When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
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Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.
